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and grace is trying so hard to not accidentally be sexist or assign gender roles to a monogendered species, so like, trying hard not to call someone he/him just because they like sports, or she/her just because they seem caring, or whatever. and he's having a hard time about it because he's like oh man why am I assigning the pronouns I'm assigning, i hope I'm not bringing any of my biases into this. just absolutely eating himself up over it

he tries to fix this by starting to roll a die, or throw darts at a dartboard, but his students immediately throw a fit because the point of the word-gifts is that they are specific, picked deliberately for them, right? and grace tries to explain gender bias and so on, but it becomes clear these kids could genuinely not give less of a shit, they just want to know what their AGAG (assigned gender at grace) is, alright? why is this so hard for him to understand??

eventually grace comes to the conclusion that he's on a different planet, and severely overthinking this, and that his kids really just are having fun--they really don't see the grace-given pronouns as categorization, he figures they see them as something more akin to astrology. or an eridian tiktok trend. when grace learns they call the assigning a word-gift he probably cries tbh

"teacher grace!!! what my pronoun question???"

"hmm. getting big they/them vibes off you"

When You Look at Dr. Grace

who even cares about this movie

I got inspired by that one special PnF episode lol

His raincoat was never packed, because obviously he wouldn't need it in space—I wonder sometimes if Stratt held onto it for any amount of time.

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Maybe thet were covering human reproduction in their clases, or they got curious about human courtship rituals, or the pebbles just realized that Grace has no mate, and because mates are so important for eridian culture (who is going to watch Mr. Grace sleep while they aren't there? He is all alone in his dome he could die!) and once they know that Simon is living in the dome too, the pebbles decide to get to work, to save Mr.Grace of dying while sleeping of course.

It could go in two ways:

The pebbles are using their knowledge in eridian courtship rituals.

The pebbles are using their little knowledge in human courtship rituals.

The first one lead to opportunities such as:

Dressing Simon and Grace in eridian jewlerly and tattoos (paint this time because they are too young to know how to do real eridian tattoos) to be more attractive.

Teaching Simon and Grace how to do eridian dances designed to impress a mate.

Trying to make Simon and Grace sing to each other eridian serenates, that only end in very out of tune karaoke.

Pebbles finding very nice rocks to given them to Mr.Grace so he can give them to Simon.

The second one lead to possible scenearis such as:

Pebbles using the thinking machine (the computer) to investigate about human courtship rituals, which ends in watching a lot of movies and reading a lot of wattpad.

Pebbles playing tricks at the style of The Parent Trap to make Simon and Grace closer.

Pebbles asking for Simon to attend the classroom because having two humans help them to understand better human topics, because they have not one but TWO examples of alien lives, and in this way Grace and Simon spend more time together.

The pebbles try their best to highlight the good qualities of both of them as subtle as they can "Grace is pretty good at watching you sleep, statement" "...What?"

Pebbles trying to make Mr. Grace dress better, they thing that the jokes in the shirt are funny, but not very useful to attract mates.

Pebbles trying to throw compliments they learn to Mr. Grace in front of Simon so he notices how nice and pretty Mr. Grace is, but sucking at it.

"Don't you think that that shirt matches with Mr. Grace's eyes, question?"

"What are you talking about?, that shirt is red, Grace's eyes are blue."

"Oh..." A pebble trying really hard to guess what can be blue " the sand, question?"

"That is yellow"

"...the sky, question?

"The sky is blue, that works"

"Amaze, amaze, amaze! Don't you think that the sky matches with Mr.Grace eyes...question?"

"...Yeah it does"

Extra thought:

Pebbles asking Rocky and Adrian for help because they are really close to the humans.

Rocky been the one who gives the Pebbles the computer (he knows what he is doing and he thinks that all this is hilarious).

everyone talks abt how adrian and rocky are roger and jessica rabbit and how rocky bagged a baddie and shit but what if,,, it was the other way around,,,,,,

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Day ONE of filling this with aro and/or ace characters